Book Awards & Distinctions
for Junauda Petrus
7 Total Book Awards
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them (4)
Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011-2025
Top 10 Selection, 2020
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Honor, 2020
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
City Selection, 2019
Young Adult Favorites Award, 2015-2025
Selection, 2020
Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? (3)
Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2023
In the Margins Book Awards, 2014-2025
Social Action Winner, 2024
Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Picture Book Selection, 2023
